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Orion Nebula (M42/NGC 1976) and Running Man Nebula (Sh2-279)
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Location: Cholla Cactus Garden, Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA (Bortle 4)
Date: January 28, 2022
Moon: Waning Crescent (12%)
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9
Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener
Filter: Astronomik L2 UV-IR Blocking 2”
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75
Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Battery: Jackery Portable Power Station Explorer 300
Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 10 sec, 30 sec, 180 sec
20 x 10 sec = 3 min 20 sec
20 x 30 sec = 10 min
10 x 180 sec = 30 min
Integration Time: 43 min 20 sec
Software: PixInsight, Topaz Labs Denoise AI, Adobe Lightroom Classic
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Copyright © 2022 Steven K. Wu Photography. All Rights Reserved.
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PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa
INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT
FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3
ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer
MOUNT: Meade Altazimut
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Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30
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2200 years ago, when the photons of light left this nebula to reach us, the Earth was definitely another place. The cosmic time machine, the telescope, this time was pointed towards the constellation Cygnus, more precisely towards Sh2-119. Gas and dust envelop the main star, 68-Cygni being mostly responsible for the ionization of the gas around it. This ionization makes the gases all colored at different wavelengths, from blue to green, passing through all shades of brown and orange. The dark nebula filaments above contrast strongly with both the glow of the nebula and the rich field full of stars in the background. These filaments are clouds containing mostly gas (hydrogen and helium) and a minimal fraction of dust (about 1%), responsible for the appearance of the cloud. These dusts, although minimal, absorb the light, making the nebula completely dark. Sh2-119 is a celestial signature of an ancient explosion that released gas and dust into the universe, forming new stars and planets. The silk effect of the nebula makes us think of a white colored pillow in a bed of stars, but, among that dust, stars and planets are forming in the most violent and destructive processes.
The photo is the sum of 26 hours of exposures. Below some technical data:
Imaging Telescopes: Tecnosky 300 F3.4 Fast Newton
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro
Mount: iOptron CEM120
Lights:
Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 50 mm: 38×900″(9h 30′)
Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 50 mm: 35×900″(8h 45′)
Chroma SII 3nm Bandpass 50 mm: 28×900″(7h)
Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30
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The Flaming Star Nebula, also known as IC 405, is an emission nebula located in the constellation Auriga, approximately 1,500 light years away from Earth. This stunning celestial formation gets its name from the red and orange hues of the ionized hydrogen gas, which is illuminated by the central star, AE Aurigae. AE Aurigae is a massive and hot star and is believed to have been ejected from the Trapezium cluster in the Orion Nebula about 2,5 million years ago. You can see the nebula itself in the upper part of the image. It is created by the intricate network of dust lanes and filaments. It was first cataloged by the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard in the early 20th century. In the center, there is also the Tadpole Nebula, which lies at a distance of 12400 light years and contains an open cluster. Further down, you can see the IC417 nebula and the open star cluster M38.
I took this image on the 18th of December last year when I was mainly collecting data for my seminar work including the measuring of a variable star. Nevertheless, I took about 140 minutes of data but was forced to use only 100 minutes because of a light cloudiness.
It is always a bit challenging to process such images because I use a cheap CLS filter which creates a strong red halo around all stars, which looks really disgusting and I have to eliminate them at least a bit in Photoshop. Unfortunately, I will be forced to buy a better filter in the future.
For the first time, I tried to stack the images in Siril which I really recommend for all of you. It is way easier to use compared to DSS and even does maybe a better job.
Canon EOS 1300D (modified), SVBony CLS filter
Sigma 135mm f/2.8
iOptron SkyGuider Pro
EXIF: 100x60sec, ISO 3200, f/5.6
Darks, flats, dark flats, biases
Processed in Siril, StarNet++, and Photoshop
18/12/2023, Mašov, Czech Republic (Bortle 5)
The Geminid meteor shower as seen under Bortle 4 skies
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Background
-The background is one continuous 6.5 minute picture shot as f8 + 400 iso
Orion/star background (39 minute integration)
-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer Pro
-14mm Rokinon lens at f/4.0, ISO 800 and 39 minute-long exposures stacked in Siril along with calibration frames (50 bias, 20 flats and 20 dark frames)
-Total integration time of 39 minutes
-Final stacked image histogram stretched in Photoshop
-Black and white filter applied
--Lowered contrast
Meteor pictures (90 minute integration)
-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer Pro
-14mm Rokinon lens at f/2.8, ISO 3200 and about 500 10-second exposures
-After collection, I manually went through every picture and noted the ones that had meteors
-Overlaid meteor shots on background layer, masked, inverted and lightened the meteors
NGC 7000 – The North America Nebula ✨🌌
Stretching over 100 light-years across and located approximately 2,600 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the North America Nebula is one of the largest and most recognizable emission nebulae in our night sky.
This image reveals glowing hydrogen gas, intricate dust lanes, and the dramatic Cygnus Wall—a region where intense radiation from young, massive stars is sculpting the surrounding clouds and triggering new generations of star formation.
Every photon in this image began its journey long before human civilization reached its modern age, traveling across the galaxy to arrive at my telescope.
The universe never fails to amaze.
📍 Object: NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
🌌 Constellation: Cygnus
📏 Distance: ~2,600 light-years
✨ Size: ~100 light-years across
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PLACE: Moccasin Lake, Winston, Georgia
INSTRUMENT: 14 Inch (36 cm) Meade LX200 SCT
FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3
ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer
MOUNT: Orion HDX110 EQ-G
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Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro
Telescope: @williamoptics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9
Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener
Mount: @skywatcherusa EQ6-R Pro
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Battery: @jackeryusa Portable Power Station Explorer 300
Lying 25 million light years from Earth, Messier 101 is a spiral disk of stars, dust and gas about 170,000 light years across, which is nearly twice the diameter of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The spiral arms contain large regions of star-forming nebulas. Imaged from the back garden in Colchester, my picture contains almost 600 x 20" exposures at ISO 1600, on a modified Nikon D750 DSLR, Sky-Watcher Explorer 150p, EQ5 Pro, via Stellarmate in Kstars/Ekos. Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, cropped and adjusted in Photoshop and Lightroom.
IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula.
293 x 120sec Lights
20 darks
ASI2600MC Pro -10 100 Gain
ASIAIr Pro
Skywatcher Star Adventurer GTi
Optonlong L-Pro Filter
Williams Optics RedCat51
Processed in PixInsight
Present Perfect 2020 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
Nina Kraviz, Shadowax (Mirabella Karyanova - Ishome), PTU, Nocow, Philipp Gorbachev, Mujuice, Moa Pillar, Flaty, Kedr Livanskiy, Sofia Rodina, Kate NV, ГШ, Vladimir Dubyshkin, Buttechno, Simple Symmetry, Errortica, Kovyazin D, Полиритм, Void Of Gene
Orion Constellation and Orion Nebula (M42). The Flame Nebula can also faintly be seen above Alnitak (leftmost star in Orion's belt).
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-Canon Rebel T
7 on a fixed tripod
-18-55mm kit lens @f/3.5, ISO 800 and 130 six-second exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker along with calibration frames (50 bias, 30 dark, and 30 flat frames)
-Total integration time of 13 minutes
-Final stacked image histogram stretched, light-pollution gradient subtracted and color-corrected in Photoshop and Lightroom
Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31, NGC 224) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth. It is approximately 220,000 light years across, and it is the largest galaxy of the Local Group.
Olympus 150mm 5.6 (40-150mm f/4-5.6)
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Olympus E-PM2
25x60s @ ISO800 (25min)
Calibrated, registered, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
Postprocessing in PS5.
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PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa
INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT
FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3
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Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30
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The fuzzball in the lower centre is Messier 87 or NGC 4486, an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that is believed to contain several trillion stars. Strikingly it has a jet of plasma streaming out from its core, which you can just make out in my image. M87 also has a massive black hole in its centre - famously pictured by the Event Horizon Telescope team in 2021. My picture was imaged in the back garden in Colchester on a ZWO ASI585MC camera, with the light coming from a Sky-Watcher Explorer 150P telescope through Baader MPCC III coma corrector and ZWO UV/IR cut filter. I stacked the best 70% of 160 x 20" exposures at Gain 300 in Astro Pixel Processor and tweaked it in Photoshop and Lightroom.
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PLACE: Moccasin Lake, Winston, Georgia
INSTRUMENT: 14 Inch (36 cm) Meade LX200 SCT
FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3
ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer
MOUNT: Meade Fork
CAMERA: SBIG ST-1001 ccd
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Mar. 4, 2005
Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA
14 inch SCT Meade LX200
SBIG ST-2002 ccd camera
10 sec subs, 39 frames
exposure 6 minutes 30 seconds
Processed with MaxIm DL
Gemini
PN G197.8+17.3
07 29.2 +20 55 (J2000.0)
47"x43"
9.2 mag; 10.4 mag CS
Type 3b+3b
2,900 light years
Uranometria 2000.0 Map 75R
The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas under Bortle 4 skies.
Details:
-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer
-135mm Rokinon lens @f/2, ISO 1600 and 25 minute-long exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker along with calibration frames (25 bias, 15 flats and no dark frames)
-Total integration time of 25 minutes
-Final stacked image histogram stretched and color-corrected in Photoshop
-Starnet++ used to separate and color-correct star clouds and nebulae in photoshop, final result was merged with stars
I've decided to take more photos, and stack them.
So, this is my result by 131 x 2,5 sec light frames and 15 dark frames.
Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30
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Cave Nebula, also known as Sh2-155 or Caldwell 9 is a huge emission nebula located in the constellation of Cepheus. The Cave itself is the dark arcuate object in the center surrounded by the red emission nebula. It has about 14 light years in diameter and is part of a much bigger cloud of gas and dust, which lies at a distance of 2740 light years.
I captured this image in September through a borrowed telescope Vixen 81S with my modified camera Canon EOS 1300D. It is my first attempt at taking emission nebulae through the telescope, not a lens, and I am pretty happy with it. There is much more detail than it would be through the common lens.
Canon EOS 1300D (modified), SVBony CLS filter
Vixen 81S, EQ-5 mount
EXIF: 48x120sec (1 hour 36 minutes in total), ISO 6400
Darks, flats, biases
Processed in DSS, Siril, StarNet++ and Photoshop
15/09/2023, Mašov, Czech Republic (Bortle 5)
10" Newton
Canon 60D
20 x 400s
Alccd5l-llc (Guiding)
After two weeks of testing and tuning my new 10" Newton this is my first picture with it.
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PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa
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Double open cluster - h and χ Persei
Olympus 150mm 6.3 (40-150mm f/4-5.6)
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Olympus E-PM2
34x60s @ ISO6400 (34min)
Calibrated, registered, stacked in PixInsight.
Postprocessing in PS5.
Soul Nebula (IC 1848)
The Soul Nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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Location: Montclair, California, USA (Bortle 8)
Date: January 4-5, 2022
Moon: Waxing Crescent (8-14%)
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9
Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme 2”
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75
Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 5 min
Acquisition: 53 x 5 min Lights | 50 Darks | 100 Bias | 20 Flats
Integration Time: 4 hrs 25 min
Software: ZWO ASIAIR PRO, PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom Classic
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Copyright © 2022 Steven K. Wu Photography. All Rights Reserved.
The Sombrero Galaxy (M104), 04/18/2021
Like I said in my last photo, its galaxy season, lol. A few weeks ago, I took my gear up into the woods and was able to capture lots of images while in the dark skis. I have always wanted to photography this galaxy, but it is really small and far away (31 million light-year), but I did it anyways. This picture is cropped in a lot. The Sombrero Galaxy is almost perfectly edge on to our field of view, so the dust lanes really pop. It also contains one of the biggest super-massive black holes ever discovered.
Equipment:
RASA 8
iOptron GEM45
ZWO ASI294MC-Pro
ZWO Asiair
Optolong L-Pro filter
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Location – Long Mire Campground
Bortle Class 2
167 30-second Lights (1.4 hrs.)
60 Darks
60 Dark flats
60 Flats
Astro Pixel Processor
Lightroom
Photoshop
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Canon 60D
6" Newton
ISO 800
13 x 7min
20 x 2min
15 x 20s
This is my first Orion Nebula of the season. I used my smaller 6" Newton to capture it. In the next weeks i try to use the 10" to get a detailed picture of the center of the nebula.
Bode's Galaxy (M81), Cigar Galaxy (M82), NGC 3077
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Location: Whittier, California, USA (Bortle 8)
Date: March 2, 2021
Moon: Waning Gibbous (80%)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9
Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener
Adapter: None
Filter: Optolong L-Pro
Mount: iOptron SkyGuider Pro
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75
Imaging Controller: ZWO ASIAIR PRO
Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 4 min
Acquisition: 44 x 4 min Lights | 100 Darks | 100 Bias
Integration Time: 2 hour 56 min
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Canon 60Da
10" Newton
ISO 800
80 x 2min
This is my first time using the H-Alpha Version of my Canon 60Da. Great to see it captures the H-Alpha lines so well. Barnard 33 is one of the most amazing objects is captured so far, I hope you enjoy the picture !